Continuous matter fields in Regge calculus

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00295-7MaRDI QIDQ5934036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors V. M. Khatsymovsky

Publication date 17 June 2001

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012095

zbMATH Keywords

effective actionsingular curvature distributionUV renormalization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

Abstract: We find that the continuous matter fields are ill-defined in Regge calculus in the physical 4D theory since the corresponding effective action has infinite terms unremovable by the UV renormalisation procedure. These terms are connected with the singular nature of the curvature distribution in Regge calculus, namely, with the presence in d>2 dimensions of the (d-3)-dimensional simplices where the (d-2)-dimensional ones carrying different conical singularities are meeting. Possible resolution of this difficulty is discretisation of matter fields in Regge background.

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